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281 Ultima Thule by Mack Reynolds

Ronny Bronston has dreamed all his life of getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. He finally gets the opportunity when he is given a provisional assignment with Bureau of Investigation, Section G. But will he be able to complete his assignment and find the elusive Tommy Paine?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 825 | Votes: 40 | Score: 8.31
Size: 147KB | 26,798 words | Posted:

282 Wailing Wall by Roger D. Aycock

An enormous weapon is forcing people to keep their troubles to themselves--it's dynamite!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 163 | Votes: 7 | Score: 8.31
Size: 29KB | 5,212 words | Posted:

283 Academic Hero by Lazlo Zalezac

A story in the Damsels In Distress Universe
Professor Edwin Jackson taught history, for the simple reason that he had a desire to live in historical times. Although offered many times to go to Chaos, he had always refused. He knew that the suggestion of a medieval world with Damsels in Distress was a result of the misguided imaginings of his good friend Gerald Jones. Better late than never.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Romance, Violence
Downloads: 3074 | Votes: 132 | Score: 8.31
Size: 87KB | 16,673 words | Posted: Concluded:

284 Power Tool ~ Revised 2021 ~ by Ernest Bywater

A man is killed at work and is used in a cyborg project. He realises his niece and friends are young women, not girls. Her sixteenth birthday party is a two week sleep over pool party. Events happen as his killers try again and he objects. He has human emotions and inhuman skills. He wonders which is his most powerful tool, his body, his mind, or his heart. Which tool has the most effect on his life and those around him? Sex scenes.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Extra Sensory Perception, Violence, Science
Downloads: 2982 | Votes: 29 | Score: 8.31
Size: 1438KB | 286,895 words | Posted:

285 Angel's Egg by Edgar Pangborn

When adopting a pet, choose the species that is most intelligent, obedient, loyal, fun to play with, yet a shrewd, fearless protector. For the best in pets--choose a human being!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 735 | Votes: 30 | Score: 8.31
Size: 74KB | 13,942 words | Posted:

286 Gold in the Sky by Alan Edward Nourse

The rock in space was not quite a sphere, being far too tiny a bit of cosmic debris to have sufficient gravity to round off its ragged corners. One side was rough -- like a ragged mountain top that was broken off at the peak and hurled into space by an all-powerful hand. Slowly the Scout Ship edged closer, braking with forward jets. Was this it, at last -- the missing asteroid?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 2298 | Votes: 134 | Score: 8.31
Size: 206KB | 39,014 words | Posted:

287 Will to Survive by Ernest Bywater

A simple training exercise with brand new fighter aircraft goes very wrong when some thieves are where they shouldn't be and get mistaken for the target drones. The resulting explosion has many consequences for everyone involved, and Will March ends up living in some turbulent times in another era. Read how Will survives those first few years which are the dangerous beginnings of his new life. 65,000 words of action adventure.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Time Travel
Tags: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Western, Rags To Riches
Downloads: 7801 | Votes: 363 | Score: 8.31
Size: 334KB | 67,774 words | Posted:

288 Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper

Earth scientists investigating the remains of a Martian city.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1248 | Votes: 71 | Score: 8.30
Size: 91KB | 16,483 words | Posted:

289 Day of the Moron by H. Beam Piper

It's natural to trust the unproven word of the fellow who's "on my side"--but the emotional moron is on no one's side, not even his own. Once, such an emotional moron could, at worst, hurt a few. But with the mighty, leashed forces Man employs now....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 578 | Votes: 39 | Score: 8.30
Size: 63KB | 11,318 words | Posted:

290 The Airlords of Han by Philip francis Nowlan

Recovering from a gas that caused him to sleep for five hundred years, Anthony "Buck" Rogers helped an enslaved America strike its first blow for freedom against the alien Han. Now, he and beloved, warrior-woman Wilma Deering, must lead a desperate a battle to the finish against a superior foe -- using futuristic weapons such as disintegrators, jumping belts, inertron, paralysis rays, and atomic torpedoes.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1122 | Votes: 38 | Score: 8.30
Size: 169KB | 29,934 words | Posted:
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